Narasimhan Ravi is the editor of The Hindu, one of India’s leading English-language daily newspapers with a circulation of 950,000. Mr. Ravi holds a Master’s degree in economics and a degree in law from Madras University and has been a journalist with The Hindu since 1972. In his career as a journalist, he served as a correspondent, assistant editor, leader writer, Washington correspondent, deputy editor and associate editor before taking over as editor in 1991. In 1993, he received the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award for excellence in journalism from Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the Venkateswara University. He was the chairman of the Press Trust of India, India’s largest news agency, in 1999-2000 and is now a director on the Board of PTI. He is a member of the executive committee of the Editors Guild of India, and is also associated with the International Press Institute and the Commonwealth Press Union. Mr. Ravi will examine the press coverage of the Iraq War across continents.
Different Stories: How the Newspapers in the United States, Britain and South Asia Covered the Iraq War
January 1, 2004
A paper by Narasimhan Ravi, spring 2004 fellow, argues that the Iraq war was an unequal conflict not just in terms of the overwhelming superiority of the American, British and other coalition forces, but also because much of the information was controlled by the coalition. This paper examines the press coverage of the Iraq war
